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Thursday, April 12, 2018

More diving beetles

One of the nice things of living near the Broads is the number of the larger diving beetles that come to you (well, your light trap). Following on from the mega fall of Hydrophilus piceus and several Dytiscus marginalis recently was this nice Dytiscus circumflexus ("the Wasp") this morning.

I have had a couple of Dytiscus dimidiatus in previous years, hope to see one of those this year. Other than that it's been rather quiet the past few days, with cold winds, persistent sea fog and heavy clouds, so I hope the forecast of warmer weather proves to be correct. Summer migrants should start to arrive in force? Now up to 550 species (101 species of beetle).